Email

All students, faculty, and staff at HSU are provided with a humboldt.edu email address for all official university communications.

We use Google Gmail as our email system. Gmail is part of a broader online environment, Google Apps, that also provides calendaring, productivity programs, group communications, and other useful applications, including the ubiquitous Google search engine.

We recommend you use Gmail via the web interface for the best experience, but you can also choose to access Gmail through a local client such as Outlook or Mac Mail. While this will enable you to synchronize mail, calendar events, contacts, and notes between your Google account locally, the full benefits of Gmail are only available on the web.

Google is a dynamic environment, and the company frequently updates or otherwise tweaks many of its services in response to user feedback. You can keep track of Google's planned and implemented changes on their What's New? site.

You'll also find a wealth of useful information about the advantages of using Gmail over Outlook on the Google website.

To set up your webmail account, go to Account Center -> Personal information -> Electronic services (including email). All faculty, staff, and students are provided with an HSU email address automatically.